Libraries And Librarians Quotes Page 2

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written.

And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.

... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library.

A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999)

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

The library is the temple of learning.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate.

I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

You must live feverishly in a library.

Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre.

I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.

Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.